ORANGUTANS: Men of the Forest

285) New!! Pet.: Ban Primate Experiments! https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-sussan-ley-mp-ban-primate-experimentsAustralia continues to allow non-human Primates to be placed in inappropriate environments & subjected to laboratory experiments that not only cause immense suffering, but can also bedangerously misleading for human medical progress because of the significant biological differences between humans and non-human primates.We request an immediate ban on the use of all non-human primates in medical & scientific research in Australia. Angela K. http://www.care2.com/news/member/340441191/3878378

284) New!! Actions: Urge your Congressmember to press for and support an end to the use of monkeys in research – contact them here Thanks for taking a few moments to help Monkeys suffering in breeding facilities & laboratories around the world this Int.l Primate Day. Together we can save the Primates. Sharon W. http://www.care2.com/news/member/177558438/3800559

277) New!! Pet.:Air France, stop transporting Monkeys to lab tests!http://www.yousign.org/de/air-france-monkeysAir France has not ceased to carry Monkeys for vivisection. They fly also dogs & cats from breeding facilities to laboratories all over the world. The animal testing has become a multimillion $ industry, thus when it comes to money or moral fiber, you bet that Cos. choose the 1st.Source: Doris V.

276) New!! Pet.: Mauritius: Stop exporting Monkeys for research purposes!http://www.yousign.org/de/mauritius-monkeysThousands of Monkeys from Mauritius are exported for research every year. Over 4,000 long-tailed Macaques were exported all over the world bet. Jan.&Sept. 2013. These statistics placed Mauritius as the 2nd exporter of Monkeys for research purposes worldwide! We believe the poor monkeys should be let in their natural habitat, enjoy their life peacefully & research labs should stop testing / killing monkeys! Source: Doris V.

275) New!! Pet.:Act Now to Save the Chimpshttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/515/324/852/Right now there are hundreds of Chimpanzees suffering in laboratories across the U.S. Hundreds more are being held in unaccredited facilities (such as roadside zoos), as pets, by breeders, or trainers for entertainment. Chimpanzees are intelligent & sensitive individuals who are our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. They don't deserve to be treated this way & should be allowed to live peacefully & without being abused. We can make it clear that we will not stand for the abuse of Chimpanzees. Save the Chimps is the world's largest Chimpanzee sanctuary with nearly 300 Chimpanzees living in our Sanctuary. We rescue Chimpanzees from exploitation & provide them the level of care, attention, & enrichment that they need to help them thrive. Join Save the Chimps by opposing the use of Chimpanzees in research, in the entertainment industry, & as pets. Take the pledge today!I oppose the use of Chimpanzees in research, in the entertainment industry, & as pets & pledge my support for Chimpanzees to live safely & peacefully in the U.S. Cher C. http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3779124

273) New!! Pet.: British Gov.t: Stop funding Monkey experiments!http://www.yousign.org/de/uk-monkey-testingContrary to public plea, the British Gov.t carries on the funding of cruel Primate experiments. 5 British Universities (incl. Oxford) have received public grants to continue Monkey testing throughout 2014. The money comes from the taxpayers. Instead of investing in other more productive fields, it is spent on importing, breeding & eventually poisoning innocent Primates. Meanwhile, other countries such as Israel & Italy have decided to ban Monkey trade in laboratories & have closed several farms that breed Primates. Such barbaric tests have no place in today’s modern world. We urge David Cameron & the UK Gov.t to follow the above mentioned examples & drop these crude Primate tests right away! Source: Doris V.

272) New!! Pet.:ABX Air: Stop shipping Monkeys to laboratories!http://www.yousign.org/de/abx-airAlmost every major airline – incl. Air China, Air France & United Airlines – have accepted to stop shipping Primates to laboratories. Testing facilities are however desperate to get their hands on the poor Monkeys & have now turned to charter airlines to provide the shipping service. One of the companies is ABX Air.Source: Doris V.

271) New!! Pet.: Tell Iran to stop sending Monkeys into space!http://www.yousign.org/de/iran-space-monkeyAccording to an Iranian newspaper, the Islamic Republic is preparing to launch a Monkey into space very soon.Source: Doris V.

270) Urgent New!!Action:The Jane Goodall Inst. Donation to Save Amadeus & Nikkihttps://www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=donate&cause_id=4110Amadeus & Nikki: both survivors of the Illegal Wildlife & Bushmeat Trades. Amadeus, 23, from Angola: spent his life chained up outside a gas station, used to attract customers. Nikki, 20, from Liberia: kept for 2 years as a kind of cross between a pet & a child: fully shaved, forced to wear costumes & a gold watch, taught to eat at a table with silverware. Rescued in 1996, lived at Johannesburg Zoo before being transferred to Chimp Eden. Amadeus & Nikki, both adult males, attacked 2 people. A committee ordered that Amadeus & Nikki be euthanized. Jane Goodall is hoping to avoid that fate & has issued a $250,000 fund-raising call to create a new enclosure for the 2 Chimps. Until June 8 to raise the money.Source: Stephanie G.

264) New!! Pet.: Appeal to Int.l investors: Stop patents on Chimpanzees!http://www.testbiotech.de/en/investors_chimpanzeesI call on the investors: Pls help to stop patents on animals & especially on Great Apes!Patents on animals can create commercial incentives to produce & market these animals just for profit. Such patents should be outlawed internationally. Pls contact the Companies mentioned & ask for the implementation of clear ethical standards!

263) New!! Pet.: Opposition against patents on Chimpanzeeshttp://www.testbiotech.de/en/node/879In 2012 the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted 3 patents on Genetically Engineered Chimpanzees. The animals are intended for use in pharmaceutical research. Such patents can create commercial incentives to run more animal experiments with animals – even with Great Apes, like Chimpanzees. The signatories are calling for animals to be treated with more respect, a stop of patents on animals &the revocation of the patents on Chimpanzees.Source: Waltraud U.

http://www.yousign.org/en/dna-monkeysAlthough the medical world was impressed with the results of the Chinese researchers,these tests will eventually result in spike in the Monkeys used for research purposes.Scientists will ultimately have limitless power to give birth to sick animals. We disapprove the tests conducted at Nanjing Medical University!No Primate deserves to be subjected to such suffering!Source: Andreas B.

258) New!! Pet.: Urge NIH to Retire ALL Chimpanzeeshttp://www.aavs.org/c.bkLTKfOSLhK6E/b.8981807/k.58C2/Retire_ALL_chimpanzees/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx#.UwFfgbQcrkBSome Alamogordo Chimpanzees are still waiting for a sanctuary home. Sadly, some were moved from the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) in New Mexico to the SW Primate Research Center in Texas just prior to NIH’s policy change. They are considered “inactive,” they remain at this lab facility. In fact, all NIH owned & supported Chimpanzees, many of whom are elderly & sick, deserve some tender, loving care in sanctuary; perhaps none more so than the Alamogordo Chimps, many of whom were used in highly invasive experiments. Time is short for some of these Chimpanzees. NIH needs to make retirement to accredited sanctuaries a priority. Cher C. http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3732689

257) New!! Pet.: Protect Korean animals in entertainment through implementation of Zoo Acthttp://www.ad-international.org/petitions/?a=sign&pid=7Tell Korea to sign the Zoo Act which will create zoo welfare standards & ban animal performances. Monkeys kept in squalid & barren conditions; traumatized, exhibiting abnormal behaviour; monkeys isolated in tiny cages; hit during training & dragged along the floor. During shows, monkeys are made to ride on a motorbike, do handstands, jump through hoops & respond to commands. Forcing animals to perform & allowing their suffering in the name of entertainment is completely unacceptable in a modern, civilized society & this is acknowledged by a growing number of nations around the world. Over 20 countries have restricted animal circuses & performances. Sara W. http://www.care2.com/news/member/189083939/3729156

254) New!! Pet.:Protect Unique Chimpanzee Culturehttp://forcechange.com/105183/protect-unique-chimpanzee-culture/A large population of Chimpanzees on the border of Dem. Rep. of Congo & the Central African Rep. is threatened by poachers & rogue militia. The Bili-Uele forest contains thousands of Chimps, perhaps tens of thousands, creating what scientists call a “mega-culture”: fascinating research possibilities bec. the Chimps exhibit complex social organization. The Chimps have unique habits such as hunting large cats, like Leopards, & eating snails which they smash on rocks to break through the shells; traveling in gangs, building ground nests much more often than other Chimps, & teaching their young to use tools to eat insects. The chimps coexist with other Species incl.Forest Elephants, Baboons, Hyenas, GuineaFowl, RedRiver & Forest Hogs. The mega-culture of Chimps also presents a sociological & biological research. All of this is irrelevant if the forest & the Chimpanzees are not protected. Chimps are often sold as “Bushmeat”, which is now a booming commercial industry in DRC. Even though Chimps are officially recognized as endangered in DRC, there is a very real threat that poachers & rogue armies will destroy & annihilate the unprotected Chimp population. David Cameron will soon be hosting a summit on the illegal wildlife trade with over 50 nations. Encourage him to create a wildlife guard to protect these Chimpanzees’ habitat by setting up roadblocks against poachers. Cher C. http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3722684

245) New!! Pet.: Appeal to Int.l investors: Stop patents on Chimpanzees!http://www.testbiotech.org/en/node/960Pls help to stop patents on animals & especially on Great Apes! Patents on animals can create commercial incentives to produce & market these animals just for profit. Such patents should be outlawed internationally. Pls contact the companies mentioned & ask for the implementation of clear ethical standards! Source:Waltraud U.

244) New!! Pet.: Free Tortured Chimps to Sanctuaries!http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/542/678/free-tortured-chimps-to-sanctuaries/Tommy the Chimp spent the first 30-years of his life living in horrible conditions & today is living in a cage inside of a used trailer lot. Chimps are still having to endure torturous science experiments that include being injected with a wild variety of diseases. Some female Chimps are used as "birthers" & have their babies immediately taken away so they too can be medically tortured. After retirement, many have no proper place to go. "The Non-Human Rights Project" has filed a petition in NewYork Courts asking that Chimps be given the right to the same liberties as a human being, with limitations of course. Chimps like Tommy are frequently depressed & sick from years of improper treatment. We owe it to them to make sure they can live the rest of their lives in peace, health & happiness; not in a cage. The USA is phasing out the use of Chimps for medical experimentation & this cannot happen soon enough! But in the meantime, ask the State of New York to send a message to the entire Nation demanding that Chimps be free of the type of ownership that does not give them the right to a healthy, happy life!

243) New!! Pet.: Demand Release of Captive Chimpanzeeshttp://forcechange.com/94311/demand-release-of-captive-chimpanzees/#.UqBbuDXZhls.care2Release 4 Chimpanzees, being housed in cruel & confining conditions, into a sanctuary where they can enjoy a better quality of life. 3 of 7 individuals have died at age 26, when the Primates are supposed to live to be 60. Tommy is living in “solitary confinement in a small, dank, cement cage in a cavernous dark shed.” Chimpanzees should have the right to live their life to the fullest, & if their psychological & emotional needs aren’t being met, they should be moved to habitats that fulfill these requirements. If you believe that these Primates deserve better, sign this petition to lend your support. Cal M. http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3682368

231) New!! Pet.: Retire the Chimps!!!http://retirethechimps.org/speak_up/Move Chimps out of "research reserve" & into retirement! The Chimpanzees of Alamogordo Primate Facility deserve permanent retirement from invasive research.Chimps from the APF are the survivors of decades of testing & many are are elderly & chronically ill as a result of their years of use in research.Make your voice heard!!! Source:Sylvie C.

VICTORY!!! For the STOP-VIVISECTION Initiative. We reached the new target of 1,100,000 voices, & even more because we finally collected: 1.126.005 signatures!!!! We were asked to collect a certain percentage of signatures in at least 7 countries, people did even better because we actually have the percentage requested in 12 Countries! Source: Laetitia S.

VICTORY!!More than a million persons signed theEuropean Citizens Initiative Stop-Vivisection!!! We have won!!!! 6 days before the end & without taking into account the signatures on paper! Thank you so much for having signed and/or shared, & for sure, together we ARE making a difference!Source:Laetitia S.

221) New!!Pet.: NIRC: Retire Privately Owned Chimpanzees Nowhttps://secure3.convio.net/neavs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=227Despite the Nat.l Inst. of Health retiring all the federally owned Chimpanzees at the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) in New Iberia, Louisiana, the lab still houses a large No. of privately owned Chimpanzees who they have not yet scheduled for retirement. NIRC & other labs are fighting to hold on to the millions in funding they have received for decades to simply house & maintain Chimpanzees – even though their actual use in research was rapidly dwindling or nonexistent. Cher C.http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3658251

220) New!!Pet.:Applaud Donor That Rescued Chimp From Solitary Confinementhttp://forcechange.com/84423/applaud-donor-that-rescued-chimp-from-solitary-confinement/A Chimpanzee, J.R., spent decades in solitary confinement inside of a cramped, dirty cage. After that, J.R. was moved to another roadside zoo where he yelled in agony, paced around his cage, & bit his arms. A symptom of psychological trauma due to confinement. Now, thanks to an anonymous donor, J.R. is living in a Chimpanzee paradise in FL, a lush sanctuary, with a healthy diet, room to explore, & Chimpanzee friends. J.R. was separated from his mother as a baby. His captors forced him to perform odd tricks for onlookers. J.R. never had interaction with other Chimpanzees. At the Save the Chimps Animal Sanctuary, J.R. is being introduced to the other 250 Chimpanzees. J.R. & his generous friend can teach us all how animals should be treated. Animals are not meant to live in isolation and/or a cage. Animals are meant to freely express themselves in their natural habitat. Recognize J.R.’s donor & spread awareness for all animals that still suffer in captivity. Source: Ana M.

219) New!!Pet.: Urge DiCaprio and Scorsese to Remove Captive Chimp from Filmhttp://forcechange.com/82241/urge-dicaprio-and-scorsese-to-remove-captive-chimp-from-film/The young Ape in Wolf of Wall Street is Chance, who lives with the Rosaire family, in a traveling circus, where Chimpanzees are forced to ride around on horses & perform unnatural tricks. The Rosaires failed to provide animals with adequate living conditions & restrained a Chimpanzee with a noose at a public exhibition. Many chimp actors end up in abusive conditions eating rotten food & living in filthy & trash-filled cages, & are separated from their mother soon after birth, with immense psychological trauma. Chimpanzees are exceptionally perceptive & intelligent animals, can understand symbols, & have the ability to plan for the future. Source: Ana M.

218) New!!Pet.: Call for a Nationwide Ban on Keeping Monkeys as Petshttp://forcechange.com/83417/call-for-a-nationwide-ban-on-keeping-monkeys-as-pets/Urge the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to implement a federal ban outlawing pet monkey ownership. Such a ban would prevent dangerous monkey attacks that result from confinement by humans, & allow Monkeys to thrive in their natural habitats. Primates belong in the wild & humans should not rob them of their safety or freedom!! Source: Ana M.

205) New!! Pet.: Stop Interstate Commerce of Primateshttp://forcechange.com/70247/stop-interstate-commerce-of-primates/#gf_1Two members of the US House of Representatives have co-sponsored an important animal welfare bill. Entitled “Captive Primate Safety Act,” this bill has drawn praise from animal advocate groups like the Humane Society of the US, the Jane Goodall Institute, & the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. If passed, the piece of legislation will amend an existing law to prohibit interstate commerce in monkeys, apes & other primates for purposes of the exotic pet trade. Moreover, the bill will step up penalties for these offenses to ensure a proper deterrent to violations.Cher C.http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3628444

201) New!! Pet.: Air France- Stop Transporting Research Primates http://www.thepetitionsite.com/319/262/348/air-france-stop-transporting-research-primates/Thousands of Monkeys from countries such as Mauritius, China, Vietnam, Cambodia & Barbados are transported by Air France to Europe & the USA to research laboratories to suffer cruel & inhumane experiments. They are ripped from their family groups, packed into small wooden crates & travel as cargo in the holds on passenger airlines where they can endure inadequate ventilation, noise, temperature fluctuations & delays en route as they are shipped on extremely long journey for research experiments. Air France is now the only major European passenge airliner still engaged in the cruel trade of transporting Primates for research. Cher C.http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3616014

Top 5 Shocking Animal Experimentation FactsMillions of animals—incl dogs & cats just like the ones we share our homes with—are tormented in U.S. laboratories annually for cruel experiments. 1.More than 100 million animals:poisoned, burned, crippled, abused in other ways in U.S. labs each year.2.No experiment is illegal:no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, redundant, or painful.3.95% of animals used for experiments:excluded from the only federal law offering any sort of protection.4. Even when valid alternatives to animals are available:the law doesn't require that they be used.5. 92% of experimental drugs safe & effective in animals:fail in human clinical trials because they don't work or are dangerous. Carolina: http://www.care2.com/news/member/793612499/3104680

Comments on Fish & Wildlife Service Proposed Rule to List Captive Chimpanzees as “Endangered” - The Nat.l Anti-Vivisection Society has worked for decades to end the use of Chimpanzees in research & their exploitation in entertainment & as personal pets, through advocacy, education & legislation. There is now a critically important opportunity to make a difference on behalf of Chimpanzees. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has now issued a proposed rule to change the status of chimpanzees born in captivity in the USA from “threatened” to “endangered.” The proposed rule, which comes in response to a petition filed by animal & environmental advocacy groups, would change the current status of captive chimpanzees. The FWS, after reviewing the petition, concluded that the Endangered Species Act does not permit it to differentiate between members of a single species as it has done in the past. This proposed rule would properly list all chimpanzees as endangered & eliminate the special category that allows for the commercial exploitation of chimpanzees in this country without a permit. Spread the word! Share this page with your social network.

182) New!! Pet.: Stop Funding Nicotine Experiments on Animals http://www.thepetitionsite.com/631/144/463/stop-funding-nicotine-experiments-on-animals/The tobacco industry & federal Gov.t both are still funding nicotine & smoking experiments on animals. Every year in the U.S., hundreds of animals are harmed & killed in experiments to test the effects of nicotine and tobacco. "Animal experiments failed to demonstrate that exposure to cigarettes & tobacco smoke caused lung & other forms of cancer, which is now undisputed in humans." So the point of continuing these cruel experiments is WHAT? Other than to collect Gov.t funding? We don't want our tax money to go towards conducting nicotine experiments on pregnant & newborn animals - we already know that pregnant mothers should not smoke. Stop testing & torturing animals in useless experiments to collect Gov.t funding.Cher:http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3576673

Become an Activist! We found five celebrities that have the power to change Proboscis Monkeys destiny.

Proboscis Monkeys can only live in Borneo and need large protected areas to survive.Borneoloses forests equivalent to an area of about a third of Switzerland every year, or at a rate of 3.2 million acres, much of it to feed the voracious appetite for timber in the West and Asia. Indonesia’s Forests are being destroyed at a rate of 4.9 million acres a year.

Target:Vietman Airlines - Thousands of Monkeys originating in countries such as Vietnam, Mauritius, China, Cambodia & Barbados as transported to the USA to research laboratories to suffer cruel & inhumane experiments. In 2010, nearly 23,000 nonhuman Primates destined for research laboratories were bought into the USA.

Some are ripped from their family groups, & others are captive bred in cramped, inhumane Monkey farms. They are packed into small wooden crates & travel as cargo on passenger airlines where they can endure inadequate ventilation, noise, temperature fluctuations & delays en route as they are shipped on extremely long journey, & traumatized are before they even reach their final destination where they are tortured for research experiments. Tell Vietnam Airlines to stop cruel transportion of research Primates.

I ask you to sign the european initiative citizen and the petition also to increase the popularity and diffusion.
Is very important because the goal of a million signatures is very difficult to achieve.
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Goal: Demand Air France stop transporting Monkeys to be used for animal testing in laboratories

Air France is one of the “largest traffickers of Primates in the world,” transporting monkeys to laboratories all over the globe. Air France is one of the only major airlines that has not yet refused to transport Monkeys to be used for animal testing. The animals endure a painful journey before arriving at a laboratory where they will be used for testing until they are killed.

These Monkeys are captured from the wild & taken from their families before being stuffed into a small, dark crate & shipped across the world. They then reach their destination at a testing laboratory, where the worst part of their suffering will occur. They will be used to test all kinds of products, from vaccines or medicines to makeup or shampoo….

Ay yi yi, those poor chimps! I did email the R & R group at the end of signing. On the page on which they ask us if we want the petition printed or emailed, they had the doctor's name and the Institute...however they left a "t" out of institute. In my experience, not a good idea to have faulty proofreading on that kind of document; especially when it's the name of the place you're sending a petition to! Anyway, caught up.

Sign the Project R&R Petition to the Director of the Nat.l Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The NIH is the top Gov.t institution who oversees the federally funded facilities that hold the oldest known chimpanzees in research. Please ask Dr. Collins to immediately release the elder chimpanzees into permanent sanctuaryso that they mayenjoy their remaining years, months, or even days in the relative peace & freedom of sanctuary before they die.

Canada is home to the Fauna Foundation—the only Chimpanzee sanctuary in Canada–& the 1st sanctuaries to rescue Chimpanzees from U.S. laboratories, & the 1st sanctuary to accept HIV-infected Chimpanzees. Citizens of Canada can continue this tradition of helping Chimpanzees by signing the petitionto prohibit Research on Chimpanzees in Canada—adding Canada to the growing list of countries like Belgium, Balearic Islands, Austria, Japan, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand & the UK that have already banned or limited the use of Chimpanzees in research.

Project R&R’s investigations (as well as information from Canadian animal protection groups) have turned up only 2 recent studies involving Chimpanzees, which likely rely on the use of biological samples from the U.S. However, in the absence of a country-wide ban, it is possible that private companies may be using Chimpanzees or that the use of biological samples from U.S. Chimpanzees could be more prevalent than known. To date, there is no indication that living Chimpanzees are currently being used in Canadian research. However, complete info. is not available.

While other nations have enacted bans & limitations on the use of Chimpanzees & other Great Apes in research,the U.S. remains the single largest user of Chimpanzees in the world.

Project R&R works for the release & restitution of all Chimpanzees in U.S. labs. In solidarity with U.S. efforts, organizations & individuals from countries around the globe can help. Please sign the following action items & show your support today! Thank you.

Monkeys are dangerous, wild animals that have their place in the wilderness - and no pets. Monkeys are very intelligent animals with complex emotional & physical needs & abilities. Keeping Monkeys as pets affects their well-being.

I would like to protest against the Malaysian Gov.t's decision tokill up to 100,000 Macaque per year.These mass killings are not only shockingly cruel, they're also unsustainable. At this rate, this fascinating & unique species in Malaysia could be extinct within a decade.There are better alternatives to reduce conflicts between humans & monkeys in urban areas. These include public education, better waste disposal & contraception in Macaques. Such measures were already used with success in Hong Kong & Singapore. I urge you to put an end to this destruction of Malaysia wildlife promptly.

Restoring the original Animal Welfare Act will protect rats, mice, & birds will eliminate poorly conducted scientific experiments and testing. This will improve science, bolster the economy in the long-term, and stop taxpayers from funding wasteful research. Please contact your Senators& tell them to support House bill (HR 6693) restore the original intent of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). SOURCE: http://aldf.org/article.php?id=2280

Air France is one of the largest traffickers of Primates in the world. The airline claims to be "making the sky the best place on Earth" - so why does it continue to ship terrified monkeys to laboratories to face imprisonment & torture?

Huntingdon Life Science is Europe's most exposed animal testing laboratory & have been filmed cutting open Monkeys while still alive, punching animals in the face, falsifying experimental test data & flouting regulations on a regular basis. As a company that claims to achieve excellence & reliability in drug research, I am surprised to learn that you contract experiments inside a laboratory that has had their license revoked & exposed falsifying test data for clients. I would like to use this opportunity to request that you cease your contracts with this horrendous laboratory & invest in more reliable sources of data research.

Target: President Barack Obama - The European Union is set to ban sale of animal tested cosmetics from March 11 this year. This ban will include toothpaste & shampoo. Earlier this year, Israel also passed a ban on animal testing. It is now time for the US to ban animal testing on cosmetics. 94% of all animal testing is done for the sake of makeup, toiletries & household cleansers. This needless torture which involves burning, blinding, maiming & killing dogs, cats, bunnies & mice is absolutely unconscionable & must end. We can’t call ourselves a humane nation until we stop these institutionalized practices of animal cruelty.

Goal: Cut funding that goes towards cruel experimentation on Primates - At the University of Minnesota, drug-addicted Primates are currently dying slow & painful deathsin small cages. These intelligent mammals are subjected to cruel testing & experiments so that scientists can research the effects of drug-addiction. Scientists forcibly train these Primates to self-administer drugs by withholding food from them until they take the drug. Victims of this depraved research suffer fromaddiction & withdrawal symptoms including seizures, loss of muscle coordination, trouble breathing, vomiting, diarrhea, heart-attacks, strokes, hallucinations, & even death.Many areeuthanizedwhen they are found to be too unruly or too sick to be useful for the experiments anymore!!

Animal test subjects undergo painful procedures such as being repeatedly injected with substances to determine how fatal they are. For fragrance animal testing, animals are usually shaved & smeared with various chemical concoctions to see what sorts of skin reactions occur. Many experience painful rashes & scabs & are often killed in the process. The USA no longer requires animal testing for cosmetic & beauty products, which indicates that companies who continue to conduct tests on animals are doing so by choice, likely to save money.

Christina Aguilera is a pop icon & her product lines are extremely popular. Consumers deserve to know the truth about these products. Ask Christina Aguilera to stop testing on animals for her fragrance line.

Thousands of Monkeys originating from breeding farms in China are shipped to North America to be used in Research Laboratories to suffer cruel & inhumane experiments. They are ripped from their family groups, packed into small wooden crates & travel as cargo of passenger airlines where they can endure inadequate ventilation, noise, temperature fluctuations & delays en route as they are shipped on extremely long journey for research experiments across the Pacific Ocean. Other Chinese airlines have banned the transport of non-human primates. China Eastern Airlines is now the only Chinese airlines still engaged in the cruel trade of transporting Primates for research. Urge China Eastern Airlines to ban Primate shipments on their aircraft. Cher: http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3526166

The Rep. of the Congo recently declared a new Nat.l Park that will protect numerous crucial animal populations including Gorillas & Elephants. The park deserves our praise. There are currently 4 known Sub-Species of Gorilla: Mountain Gorillas, Eastern Lowland Gorillas, Western Lowland Gorillas & Cross River Gorillas: all Critically Endangered. Ntokou-Pikounda Nat.l Park, covers 4,572 sq. kilometers (1,765 sq. miles) & contains an estimated 15,000 Gorillas, 800 Elephants, & 950 Chimpanzees. Over 11% of the nat.l territory is protected by nat.l parks, one of the most significant conservation efforts in the world. In 2008 the Wildlife Conservation Service discovered a population of some 125,000 Western Lowland Gorillas, & the 15,000 within Ntokou-Pikounda are the core population of this group, ensuring the survival of the Species. Gorillas in the area are in constant danger as the result ofbeing hunted for bushmeat & the persistent spread of theEbola virus. The WCS has been actively working to develop vaccinations for Ebola & also to find alternative food sources for those groups of people who rely on hunting them for sustenance. Pls thank the Republic of the Congo for its continued effort to save vital & endangered species from further decline & hardship. Their persistent commitment to conservation should be an example for the rest of the world.

…investigated learning in Rhesus Monkeys: to damage parts of their brains & then test their learning ability & report the results in articles like: “The effect of large cortical lesions on learned behavior in monkeys”(brain injuries)… …take baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers at birth & put them in a cage with a cloth-covered surrogate mother & a surrogate made of wire. A bottle of infant formula attached to the wire mother. A baby rhesus monkey prefers a cloth surrogate even if his or her food is provided by a wire surrogate. Infants removed from their mothers quickly developed abnormal behaviors. The deprivation of maternal care & the deprivation of normal social contact with other monkeys were determined to be reliable ways to create chronically anxious & fearful experimental subjects.In addition to signing the pledge, call or write the UW System President & let him know you are withholding your support until these cruel experiments are ended.

Cher: http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3524395Left: The Vertical Chamber, or the Well of Despair. Young monkeys placed in this device, a deep metal pit with sloping sides, developed profound depression very quickly & spent most of their time huddled in the bottom of the well

The law firm The Ticket Clinic is airing an ad featuring the company's owner, Mark Gold, holding a young chimpanzee who is wearing a suit. Chimpanzees & other Great Apes used for entertainment are taken away from their mothers shortly after birth, which traumatizes both mother & baby & deprives the infants of their most critical social & emotional needs. As the young apes grow, trainers typically subject them to physical & psychological abuse in order to ensure that they will perform confusing, unnatural behaviors on cue. By the time apes reach approximately 8 years of age, they are too strong to be safely handled & are often discarded at wretched roadside zoos or other substandard facilities. Chimpanzees can live into their 60s, so life after "retirement" from the entertainment industry often means decades spent in appalling conditions, sometimes in solitary confinement. A number of companies, including Great Clips, Pizza Factory, Pfizer, Dodge, & Capital One, recently pulled ads featuring Chimpanzees after learning about this issue, & they immediately pledged never to feature apes in future ads.

128) New!! Pet.: Pledge Not to Buy Products Made by Procter & Gamblehttp://forcechange.com/53924/pledge-not-to-buy-products-made-by-procter-and-gamble/It’s shocking how many products Procter&Gamble manufacturers & consequently, how much money it makes, & yet it still hasn’t managed to find the funds to develop entirely sustainable products. Procter&Gamble even brags on its site about its “billion dollar brands,” the products that generate more than $1 billion in profits annually. Not one of the products on the list is free of toxins. To name a few, Gain & Tide, laundry detergents that contain high levels of 1,4-dioxane, which is a synthetic petrochemical carcinogen. Pantene & Head & Shoulders, products that are tested on animals, contain pesticides & other petroleum-derived chemicals. And Dawn dish soap contains petroleum-based ingredients, artificial colors & other undisclosed chemicals. We can no longer let Procter&Gamble profit off of our willingness to buy products that are toxic. Let’s stand together & pledge not to buy any products made by Procter & Gamble. With obesity, asthma, cancer, infertility, birth defects, allergies & manyother health problems proven to be related to the chemicals we use in our homes & put on our bodies, it’s an insult to us that Procter&Gamble has made little more than pathetic attempts to be eco-conscious. It’s simple, if a product can’t be made without doing harm to the environment or people, then don’t make it. The time of compromising the planet for profits has passed & no amount of self-serving lies about how sustainable a few of Procter&Gamble’s products are will make us believe otherwise. Procter&Gamble earns billions of dollars a year. The board of directors could stand to shave a million or two off their salaries if it means the planet & their customers will be healthier.

It’s time for Corporations to start paying for their actions by having consumers stop paying for their products. For a full listing of Procter&Gamble’s products, go to http://www.pg.com/en_US/brands/index.shtml. Let’s stand together & either shut this toxic corporation down, or force it to change its corrupt business practices. All we have to do is educate ourselves on what products Procter&Gamble manufacturers, & then pledge not to buy them.

124) New!! Pet.: Stop the creation of a research center for vivisection in Lugo (Spain)http://www.change.org/it/petizioni/stop-the-creation-of-a-research-center-for-vivisection-in-lugo-spainWith an investment of nearly 3.5 million euros, all public funds (70% of funding from European funds & 30% ERDF funding regional, provincial & local), this new laboratory will use all kinds of animals for "research biomedical also serve as a focal point for the pharmaceutical industry”. Electric shock, burns, heart attack caused, renal failure, surgery without anesthesia, asphyxia, amputations or inhaled gases are some of the atrocities that are inflicted on dogs, cats, primates, rodents... The results of animal research are not 100% applicable to humans &, secondly, several alternatives have been developed more effective & respectful of everyone's life.

United Airlines is involved with transporting nonhuman Primates destined for use in research laboratories to suffer cruel & inhumane experiments. Packed into small wooden crates & travel as cargo in the holds on passenger airlines, Monkeys can endure inadequate ventilation, noise, temperature fluctuations & delays en route as they are shipped on extremely long journey for research experiments.

Other major airlines, incl. Air Canada, Air China, American, Delta, Lufthansa, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic & many others have already abandoned this cruel practice.Urge United Airlines to stop transporting Primates for research.

1000's of NYU laboratory animals died during Hurricane Sandy- they were left in basement laboratories to drown. During disasters which involve power failure, laboratory animals die of heat stroke, fire & drowning with no means to escape. Animals are simply abandoned like expendable equipment. The research facility clearly violated the Animal Welfare Act by failing to provide the availability of emergency, weekend, & holiday care- instead left the animals to die trapped in basement laboratories. We ask that NYU Langone Medical Center & School of Medicine stop using research animals at the facility & shift from animal experiments to in-vitro tests, human-based studies, & other modern scientific methods.

117) New!! Pet.: Stop Proctor & Gamble from torturing & testing their products on animalshttp://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_P_G_form_torturing_testing_their_products_on_animals/Stop the torture of animals by Proctor & Gamble, they are testing & torturing animals needlessly. It is cruel & unconscionable. Pls stop them for the sake of these poor creatures. They are blinded, burned, operated on and left open, alive for observation etc. Proctor & Gamble is guilty of injuring, torturing, sadistic practices & inhumane treatment of animals. There is absolutely no need what so ever. They are being tortured for shampoo products etc. It has been proven there is no need to test on animals for the products they supply the public with. End the torture! There are many good products in

Earlier this year, PETA India contacted Air India to urge the company to stop transporting animals to laboratories to be used in experiments. After a face-to-face meeting, Air India promised in writing that it would refuse requests to transport animals to laboratories. But now, because of pressure from animal experimenters, Air India has backtracked on the ban & resumed shipping animals for use in cruel laboratory experiments.In one recent experiment in India, male beagles had their legs cut open so that transmitters could be inserted into them, had tubes forced into their penises, & were repeatedly injected with experimental drugs. Young dogs in Indian laboratories are commonly poisoned to death in toxicity tests after being force-fed chemicals for months on end. Many leading international airlines have full or partial restrictions on shipping animals to laboratories. Just among the Int.l Air Transportation Association's list of the world's 10 largest cargo carriers, FedEx, UPS, Cathay Pacific, Korean Airlines, & EVA Air prohibit any shipments of animals for experiments; Emirates, Singapore Airlines, & China Airlines won't ship Primates to laboratories; & Lufthansa has banned shipments of cats, dogs, & primates destined for laboratories. Pls tell Air India that you won't fly with the airline so long as it transports animals for use in experiments & urge authorities to bring back the ban now.

Target: Health and Human Services - Today, there are over 900 Chimpanzees in laboratories. Only 10-20% of them are actually being used in active research. The rest are held captive in cramped laboratory cages simply for financial gain. Pls ensure that these intelligent creatures are allowed to retire in safe sanctuaries where they can spend the rest of their lives in peace. Take Billy Jo as an example. He lived in a laboratory for 14 years, enduring 289 dart shots filled with anesthetics. He has suffered through HIV infections, liver biopsies, & many more horrific acts, which, in the end, had no benefit to human welfare or scientific knowledge. Years of psychological, emotional, & physical torture made him sick & depressed. He was finally rescued when the laboratory veterinarian realized that Billy Jo could not take any more suffering. However, there are many more Chimpanzees that are not as “lucky.” When Billy Jo was finally rescued & put in a sanctuary, he lived there happily for 9 years – waving at visitors, creating artwork, eating fruits, & enjoying the freedom that he never had before. Chimpanzees are highly intelligent & emotional living beings that deserve the freedom & right to live in a safe, healthy, & happy environment. Pls ensure that these laboratory Chimpanzees are given a fair retirement & safe haven.

114) New!! Pet.: Free Wenka and the Elders!http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-wenka-and-the-elders/Target: Yerkes Nat.l Primate Research Center- Atlanta - 57 years in a lab & still counting.......... Wenka was born to lab parents in 1954. When you think of the fifties, you think of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, & James Brown. These performers have long passed, yet Wenka still sits in a concrete prison four decades later. Wenka is the oldest known Chimpanzee in a U.S. lab, & during her lifetime she has been used in studies that include alcohol, oralcontraceptives, aging, & cognitive studies at Yerkes Nat.l Primate Research Center in Atlanta. During her lifetime she has had her babies taken away, she has had cell-mates she has bonded with come & go, but for the most part she has had a sad solitary life.

The suffering of Chimpanzees & other animals used for research is not limited to what goes on in actual experiments. Their day-to-day existence in a laboratory is traumatic in itself. Chimpanzees experience ongoing mental & physical suffering from the endless boredom, confinement, & fear & stress of daily laboratory life. Former employees at Yerkes say that Wenka suffers from severe stress. She can be seen rocking back & forth, & is said to have a 1000 mile stare. Wenka has endured enough abuse in the name of science.After 57 years in a cell, & only a few remaining years left, Wenka deserves to be at peace in a Chimpanzee sanctuary.

During a break-in at Zoo Boise in Idaho,2 intruders killed a male Patas Monkey through blunt force trauma to the head & neck. The monkey was a favorite among many of the children that visited the zoo. On the night of the break in, the Patas monkey’s distress call alerted a security guard. The guard investigated, & found 2 males fleeing from the primate exhibit. Unfortunately, by that time the monkey had already been fatally injured. The Monkey died several hours later despite the zoo veterinarian’s best attempts to save him. The situation is especially tragic because the remaining Patas Monkey is the only one of his Species at the zoo. Zoo Boise will have to send the remaining Monkey to another zoo. Monkeys are highly social animals, & it would be inhumane to keep the remaining monkey without a companion.Unfortunately, there are remarkably few Patas monkeys in captivity, so finding the monkey a new home will be difficult.

Despite police investigation, the 2 intruders have not been caught. Since nothing was stolen, &no other animals were injured, the intruders’ motivation is unclear. It is shocking to the police & zoo staff that anyone would want to harm the animals. Ask that the intruders be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law upon their capture. This is a senseless crime that has left one animal dead, & another without a home or his long-time companion.

Target:Air France-KLM, CEO - Thousands of monkeys originating in countries such as Mauritius, China, Vietnam, Cambodia & Barbados are transported by Air France to Europe & the USA to research laboratories to suffer cruel & inhumane experiments. They are ripped from their family groups, packed into small wooden crates & travel as cargo in the holds on passenger airlines where they can endure inadequate ventilation, noise, temperature fluctuations & delays en route as they are shipped on extremely long journey for research experiments. Air France is now the only major European passenger airline still engaged in the cruel trade of transporting Primates for research. Urge Air France to stop transporting Primates for research.

Target: TheDirector of the Nat.l Inst. of Health; Goal: Ensure all sick Chimpanzees retired from federal research centers are allowed to live out the rest of their days at sanctuaries

The U.S. remains the only industrialized nation in the world to use live Chimpanzees in invasive research experiments. While the Nat.l Institutes of Health’s (NIH) decision to retire 110 federally owned Chimpanzees from invasive experiments at first seemed like a victory for these intelligent & beautiful creatures, the actual fate of most of these animals can hardly be considered retirement at all. Only 10 Chimpanzees released from the New Iberia Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana will be sent to a sanctuary to live out their final years in peace.The other 100 are currently doomed to spend their last days at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, where they may still be used as subjects in non-invasive research. These Chimpanzees have already lived through a lifetime of mistreatment & torture–much of it ultimately unnecessary to the development of science & medicine.Many are already afflicted with chronic illnesses like epilepsy & renal failure. They aren’t the only sick animals doomed to spend their final years being probed & abused by human scientists. A new study published in the journal Alternatives to Laboratory Animals reveals that 64% of Chimpanzees who die in research facilities suffer from severe chronic illnesses for years before they finally succumb to them. Research scientists should know better than to force sick animals to remain in laboratories where they will be of little or no use to scientific study. Institute new policies that will allow all sick laboratory Chimpanzees to retire to sanctuaries, not private research facilities!

Video:Cruel Mauritius monkey trade in Mauritiushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng2rb4ef7n4&feature=player_embeddedMauritius exports up to 10,000 monkeys a year to laboratories around the world. The monkeys will suffer & die in experiments in the USA & Europe. Wild Monkeys are torn from their jungle homes & families. Mauritius is the world's 2nd largest exporter of Monkeys. The BUAV exposes the terrible plight of the Monkeys on Mauritius, exported around the world for the Int.l Research Industry.Video: (Disturbing images!!) BUAV reveals monkey slaughter in Mauritius research breeding farmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3t5MPJ-5qk

L'Oreal is the 2nd largest Cosmetic Co. in the world today & the maker of some of my favorite products. However, myself & millions of others refuse to purchase anything tainted with the blood of innocents. Can we stop & think for one second about the increase in income L'Oreal would receive upon adopting cruelty free methods?! Animal rights is the LARGEST social justice issue since the abolition of slavery, so if you for one second think that the animal lovers of the world have no effect on profits, think again. We will not stop until you do!

103) New!! Pet.: Non Animal Research!!http://www.tierrechte.de/petition-kompetenzzentrum-statt-tierversucheleave Bundesland: blank ; Stadt: your City, Country (It’s accepted even if you are not German)The Animal Welfare Act provides: animal tests should only be performed if it does not have animal-free methods, the test applications and are ethically acceptable. The collected signatures will be handed over to policy makers expected during the parliamentary consultations on the implementation of the EU Directive on animal experiments.Cher: http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3469913

The Nat.l Institute of Health (NIH) revealed that they will be retiring 110 Chimpanzees from a Louisiana research center in an attempt to help end animal testing. While 10 of the Chimps will be moved to a nearby sanctuary, the other 100 will be moved to another Research Institute in Texas. There, the chimps will be ineligible for testing or research, but will be permitted to take part in any behavioral studies. The lucky 10 chimpanzees en route to the sanctuary, Chimp Haven, will no longer have to suffer through animal testing. Even with the retiring of these Chimpanzees, The New Iberia Research Center still houses 200 privately owned Chimps & thousands of other monkeys. This number will hopefully deteriorate, as the USDA is conducting an ongoing investigation of the facility. By next year, NIH will cut off all funding to New Iberia, & slowly the research center should shrink. This move is certainly in the right direction for the elimination of animal testing, but there is still much to do, as more & more monkeys are being exposed to various diseases(click) for the benefit of humans. Support the Great Ape Protection & Cost Savings Act which will gradually cut down federally funded research on Chimpanzees.

85) New!! Pet.: Air France Flies Primates To Experimentation Labshttp://www.kinshipcircle.org/action_center/letter_new3.asp?LetterID=1986#autoletterAir France-KLMis the only major European carrier to still ship Primates for research. We ask both companies to acknowledge worldwide objection to Primate "cargo." Consider that 80% of responders to a 2010 European Directive about animal research oppose experiments on Primates. In the U.S., an Institute Of Medicine report has fueled potential passage of a bill to ban most research on Chimps & Great Apes. Primate data can rarely be replicated or used reliably in drug/vaccine development. Primates fail to produce clinical symptoms relevant to human disease processes & even mislead experimenters with false conclusions.

In response to: Another experiment adds to the ever-mounting evidence that humans aren’t special at all. Actually humans ARE special!! Special in the fact that we are the only animals on the planet who are greedy, materialistic, purposefully destroy the planet, watch our OWN SPECIES die of hunger and dehydration and do nothing about it, and much, much more (negative) things. So yeah, just TRY and tell ME I am not special!!

80) New!!Pet.Demand Harvard Medical School Stop Experiments on Monkeyshttp://forcechange.com/32021/demand-harvard-medical-school-stop-experiments-on-monkeys/The experiments performed by Harvard medical school are highly questionable. The head research of the project, Dean P. Jones stated that the purpose of the study with the marmosets is to find solutions to physical weaknesses seen in older people. Jones states that it is easier to monitor the marmosets’ growth due to their short life span & that the study is not dangerous for the primates. However, the experiment constantly has the marmosets in tubes when they are being scanned to monitor and measure body composition.

It seems to me scientists are often behind the times. Of course animals have their own language.
We have a cat to which we talk a lot. And ... it miaows to us. We have real conversations, which surprised the vets my husband went to last week. The cat miaowed , my husband talked to it and when it felt good enough, it started purring.
No doubt apes can communicate and have their own language.

Target: Air China; Goal: Stop the inhumane transport of Monkeys from China to the USA

Air China remains one of the few major Airlines that still transports Monkeys via airplane. These animals are often taken from their natural environments to be shipped the long distance to laboratories in the USA where they are used asresearch subjects. Other Monkeys are bred in captivity for their entire lives, living in cramped factory farms, raised only to be used in experiments.

Air China has been cited 4 times this year alone for violating United States animal welfare laws. Clearly, they do not care about the state of these animals. The long flights can often be traumatizing for the Monkeys, who are crammed in small wooden crates & transported in the cargo holds of planes. Monkeys are highly intelligent creatures & share the same feelings offear, boredom, depression & loneliness that humans do. It is unfair to treat our fellow beings this way & subject them to such conditions.

Goal: Don’t bow to pressure to ship research animals from the Biotech Industry & Continental Airlines

United Airlines has always refused to ship research animals, such as Primates, in their planes. But their recent merger with Continental Airlines, as well as pressure from the Biotech Industry, has them reconsidering their policy. Tell United Airlines to stand strong & refuse to take any part in the brutal (& USELESS)practice of animal testing.

6,565Signatures - We request that you use the considerable influence of the Nat.l Institutes of Health (NIH) to ensure that the 15 young Chimpanzees used at BIOQUAL, Inc., in Rockville, Md., are released to a sanctuary. We request the 11 Chimpanzees who were leased by NIH & housed a BIOQUAL until recently to be transferred from New Iberia Research Center, Louisiana, to Sanctuary & the 4 remaining Chimpanzees, being housed at BIOQUAL, Inc, be transferred directly to sanctuary.

These Chimpanzees, collectively known as the Rockville 15, range in age from just 2 to 7 years old& were likely born in violation of NIH's own 1995 breeding moratorium.

Considering that they are unnecessary for human health research, as detailed in the recent Institute of Medicine report, they should be released to sanctuary where it is cheaper for you to house them, & a much better environment for these Chimpanzees to live. They must not live out their days in a laboratory that has repeatedly violated the Animal Welfare Act.

3 Big Oil Companies–Soco, Total, & Ophir Energyplanning to begin oil extraction in Virunga National Park in the Dem. Republic of Congo. These plans entail seismic tests, forest clearing, underground drilling, installation of oil pipelines, & significant human presence. The proposed areas allocated to oil concessions cover 85% of the park’s land. All of these factors would be harmful to the vast & diverse wildlife that inhabits the park.

More individual Species live in Virunga National Park than almost any other place in the world: more than 200 mammal Species, 22 kinds of Primates, 700 types of Birds; many Endangered Species: Chimpanzees, Hippos, Forest Elephants, & Mountain Gorillas (only 786 individuals remainin the Dem.Rep.of Congo, Uganda, & Rwanda). Some of these Species live exclusively in Virunga National Park, such as the rare & beautiful Okapi, the forest giraffe. Funds raised by Mountain Gorilla ecotourism are used to pay for conservation efforts & local community projects. 30,000 local residents make their livelihoods from fishing in the park. In addition to harming wildlife, damaging the park with oil extraction could cause socio-economic tension & crime. The Dem. Rep. of the Congo has outlawed environmentally harmful activities in protected areas, which include Virunga National Park. The Ministry of the Environment has ordered the suspension of oil exploration efforts while they conduct an environmental assessment of potential damage.

S U C C E S S!!!!!19.6.2012http://www.facebook.com/ShutDownMazorFarmAfter a 5,482 Signatures Petition signatures & tens of thousands of emails, facebook messages & phone calls, El-Al has publicly announced that it will immediately & permanently refrain from flying any monkeys for experimentation purposes. We would like to congratulate El-Al for its decision. We are terminating the boycott, while keeping one eye open wide and watching, as we would like to make it clear that the true and only test is whether El-Al keeps its promise.

…June 12th 2012: El-Al Airlines (Israel) announced its intention, under the excuse of previous contractual obligations, to revert back to providing air transport services toMazor Farm, the infamous monkeys breeding farm selling Macaque monkeys to horribly cruel experiments in laboratories around the world. El-Al has not only chosen an immoral & unacceptable path, it also violated its public announcement as of September 2010, not to transport any animals for experimentation purposes as an official policy (joining the vast majority of airlines in the world).

Since my first Thesis at the Interpreters' School, prepared on the Texts of the American Embassy Library in Rome, I was horrified by this kind of “Scientific(??)” Experiments!!! That occurred in 1969!!!! ARE WE STEPPING BACKWARDS????!!!! Michela

Maternal deprivation -- crushing a monkey’s spirit by raising him or her without a nurturing caregiver -- was invented & promoted by UW-Madison’s Harry Harlow & his students in the 1970s & 80s. Harlow’s experiments with maternal deprivation are widely acknowledged as being profoundly cruel. We must work together to prevent the return of the infamous Harry Harlow maternal deprivation studies that included rearing infant macaques in isolation chambers for up to 24 months, from which they emerged severely disturbed. This is a giant moral step backwards!!

thru 52 signed! As for #53, my representatives in govt support anti-vivisection legislation so i need not convince them -- in addition, the petition itself did not show up -- probably because i need to be registered with site -- at present, do not have time to register -- made note to register with them in near future.

52) New!!Help end experiments on PrimatesLooking into the face of a primate, it's hard not to feel a sense of familiarity. Many Australians would assume that these intelligent animals, whoshare so many similarities with us are protected from cruelty. But sadly, hundreds of Primates are still used in research & experimentation in Australia. Not only are there 3 tax-payer funded primate breeding Centres in Australia, Australian Gov.t also permits the import of primates for research -- which undercover investigations revealed may underpin the brutal & Illegal Practice of capturing infant Primates from the wild.Animal experimentation is increasingly recognized as unreliable & inhumane, with many scientists looking to safer, non-animal alternatives. Experimentation on Primates in Australia is not only cruel & unnecessary, it is linked to illegal wild capture & the decline of threatened Species.Source:Cristina M.Primates captured from the wild for research

50) New!! U.S. only!!Tell Congress to End Chimpanzee ExperimentsChimpanzees, humans' closest living genetic relatives, are extremely social, intelligent individuals who have rich mental & emotional lives. They have incredible memories, they share cultural traditions that are passed down through generations, they care deeply for their families & friends, & they grieve the loss of their loved ones when they pass away.

Please HelpRobby, a37 year old Chimpanzee to be free!!! He must undergo medical care. PeTA is asking the Circus to let him free, for his first time, and to have the opportunity to be a.. Chimpanzee, at last!! he deserves it!!

I have read quite a lot of petitions and I am amazed at the number of tortures, ill-treatments and various abuses monkeys in general are victim of. This is simply incredible, unbelievably cruel. We have almost the same DNA as them but we behave as if they were mere objects, to use and throw away. It's time man learnt to respect them.

Wowie ~ Thank you! Michela for getting all of this information out there, photos, news, videos, and petitions. Ya caught me on a couple of them, but NOW ALL Up-To-Date!!! Hugs to you for all of your heard work in providing all of this information for people to just come one place and take care of what needs to be done for our creatures, environment and also learn information!

Ban invasive research on great apes, including Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Gorillas, and Orangutans.

There are only 2 countries in the world that conduct invasive research on Chimpanzees: the central African Nation of Gabon and the lone remaining geopolitical (arguably global) Superpower, the United States.

This bill would prohibit Interstate Commerce in Monkeys, Apes & other Primates in the exotic "pet" trade.

Makes it unlawfulfor a person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase a live animal of any prohibited wildlife speciesin interstate or foreign commerce (i.e., for pet trade purposes). Sets forth exceptions to such prohibition, including, under certain conditions, for: (1) transporting a nonhuman primate to or from a veterinarian, (2) transporting a nonhuman primate to a legally designated caregiver as a result of the death of the preceding owner, and (3) transporting a single primate of the genus Cebus that was obtained from & trained by a charitable organization to assist a permanently disabled individual with a severe mobility impairment. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of the requirements of this Act.

Well I finally got some time to catch up and all petitions signed. All the pictures each tell a story, some so sad and others so wonderful. Thank You Michela for all that you are doing in defense of the Chimpanzees. You truly are an inspiration.

Be a voice for the Monkeys who are suffering in the primate trade. Urge airlines that still transport monkeys to U.S. laboratories to join their peers by adopting a formal policy against the transportation of nonhuman Primates for use in experiments.

Many are unaware of the suffering that comes with the products we pick up off of shelves every day. As you read this millions of cats, dogs, monkeys, rats and other animals are in small cages with eyes full of terror, lonely and waiting for a barbaric death. These animals become neurotic, swaying back and forth, spinning in circles and mutilating themselves. The sad part is, as far as testing for cosmetics goes, these animals are tortured for our superficiality. Each of our individual lives are abundant with choices that can either support or inhibit the tragic fate of these innocent animals.

In these labs animals are often skinned, blinded, suffer seizures, and have holes drilled into their skulls.

26)New!!Help Provide Captive Chimpanzees the Same Protections As Wild OnesSince 1976 the Endangered Species Act has protected wild Chimpanzees, while captive Chimpanzeesare excluded from the same protection. Not protecting captive Chimpanzees encourages the illegal trade of wild Chimpanzees, it is partly because of this that the population of chimpanzees around the world has been falling. We need to take action now and protect all Chimpanzees.Wild chimpanzees are at risk for being captured and sold into captivity, where they are used for entertainment, pets, and product testing. This treatment is inhumane. The capture and captivity of wild Chimpanzees prevents the recovery of their Species. By including captive Chimpanzees in the Endangered Species Act we can help protect all Chimpanzees.Cher:http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3094916

Good News!! & Petition!!! You Did It: Air France Cancels Live Monkey Transport for Animal Testing!Within 24 hours, you and others like you managed to generate 68,000 Emails, thousands of Facebook posts and tweets, and hundreds of calls. Thanks to your fast work and dedication, we are thrilled to confirm that Air France has cancelled plans to deliver these monkeys into the hands of experimenters!This fantastic show of support proves once again that strength in numbers and coordinated actions can have a huge effect on Companies. From all of us at PETA, a huge “Thank you!” to everyone who helped stop this transport! We are now urging Air France to create a formal policy to prohibit future shipments of primates to labs.With this victory so fresh, please Sign

Petition!!!: Use your voice to influence the Home Officenot to weaken protection laws for animals in laboratories in future.The European Union has just reviewed its law on animal experiments and the UK must as a result change our own law – a law that controls the fate ofmore than 3.5 million animalslike Felix every year. PETA is working hard to gain as much for Primates and every other animal as we can. Felix's sad, lonely and needless death has to count for something. We must remember him as we work to help thousands like him.A Macacque similar to FelixPETA is calling on the UK Government to ensure that the UK's new law is as effective in protecting animals as possible. Please SIGN to the Home Office Minister responsible for animal experiments to ask her to bring in the most progressive and compassionate law she can.

In the past, scientists urged the use of chimps in labs since their genetic makeup is similar to humans. However, the Jane Goodall Institute has concluded that Chimps have proven to be poor models for human cell research because the differences in their DNA results in large differences in the behavior of diseases. These Chimps must face sickening tests while undergoing disease research which includes tubes being forced down chimps’ throats for experimental drugs to be pumped into their stomachs; infant monkeys being ripped away from their mothers in order to record the psychological trauma done to these social animals when left alone at a young age; holes drilled into their skulls for electrodes to be placed on their brains; and many other disgusting attempts at understanding humans. Research has shown that 90% of chimps in labs display depression, anxiety, and self-mutilation after suffering physical and psychological abuse and social isolation.The U.S. military confirmed they will be ending their cruel monthly training experiments on apes that included exposure to anthrax, botulism, bubonic plague, & nerve agents.